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Papercuts - Future
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My favourite happy song.
The Beatles - It’s Getting Better (Birthday Blog Week No.7)
I really love it when the backing singers say, “It can’t get no worse!” It has to get better. It hits such a strange spot for humour for a pop record.
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My favourite song about nothing.
Squarepusher - Tommib (Birthday Blog Week No.6)
It’s short, it’s sweet, it’s beautiful. It’s also on the Lost In Translation OST - a great collection of songs as well as good film.
I can listen to this over and over and over and…
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My favourite song about work.
Wolf Parade - Shine A Light. (Birthday Blog Week No.5)
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My favourite raucous tune.
Boys Noize -& Down (Original Mix)
Birthday blog Week No.4
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My favourite song about the end of the world.
Lift to Experience - These Are The Days (Birthday Blog Week No.3)
After 9/11 I heard this song in my head over and over in some kind of frightening end-of-the-world hysteria. I saw them live in Brighton and chatted to them after the show. They are fine upstanding fellows, but there is something ominous and spiritual about the music that overshadows that for me. They have since become huge mythical figures in my mind who have dissapeared into the deserts of Texas.
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Centro-Matic - To Unleash The Horses Now (Birthday Week Blog No.2)
My favourite song where the guitarist valiantly tries to control his wildly feedbacking guitar but does not even begin to do so; creating a song where clumps of noise threaten to overwhelm everybody, especially the singers strangely pained “ooh oohs!”
I always imagine the guitarist waiting to turn his guitar on and then being a bit shocked by the amount of noise it’s making on what is really underneath just a simple song.
When it comes back in during the second verse I always laugh at the beautiful joy of a guitar turned up to loud.
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My favourite song about drinking.
The Butterflies of Love - Leaving When I’m Done Drinking.
From the album How To Know The…
Birthday Week Blog No.1.
Last week I posted an mp3 of Wavves performing live at SXSW. The song was played w/ a surprisingly clean sound by a solo Nathan Williams. It came from a great website called Lullabyes.net. Click on the photo link for Lullabyes.net’s blog. They specialise in crystal clear soundboard recordings of live bands. You can download some more songs from the Wavves set and a load of mp3s from other great bands.
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Lotus Plaza - Different Mirrors
Side project of Deerhunter’s guitarist Lockett Pundt. From an album called The Floodlight Collective. Bradford Cox of Deerhunter sings on this track.
